Making a Machinima in Second Life – in 19 Steps

For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to learn how to record Second Life and to create recordings which will be useful to our language learners. There are already more than 110 participants on this course, some of them already accomplished machinima producers, and some taking their first steps now.

Second life educators are known to be great sharers – nowhere else (but on Twitter) have I met so many colleagues willing to give away their free time and this is an inspiring environment to work in.

For the benefit of those who have not yet created any machinima productions, I have created this short guide.

This post is inspired by a post with the titleHow to Make a Moviewhich summarises the process in 19 Steps.

Audio Recording & Editing

Audacity– an open source application which allows you to record and edit audion. Audacity is easy to use and allows you to record different tracks and to change the level or speed or tracks or sections of your track.

A You Tube Tutorial on how to record using Audacity and showing some of the basic functions. You can search for more on You tube